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Mother Wore Tights (1947)
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September 1947 (USA)
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In our family dad wore the pants but . . . Mother Wore Tights [Australia Theatrical]
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In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school...
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Won Oscar.
Another 2 nominations
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Disappointing
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Betty Grable | ... | Myrtle McKinley Burt |
 | Dan Dailey | ... | Frank Burt |
| Mona Freeman | ... | Iris Burt |
| Connie Marshall | ... | Miriam 'Mikie' Burt |
| Vanessa Brown | ... | Bessie |
| Robert Arthur | ... | Bob Clarkman |
| Sara Allgood | ... | Grandmother McKinley |
| William Frawley | ... | Mr. Schneider |
| Ruth Nelson | ... | Miss Ridgeway |
| Anabel Shaw | ... | Alice Flemmerhammer |
| Stephen Dunne | ... | Roy Bivins (as Michael Dunne) |
| George Cleveland | ... | Grandfather McKinley |
| Veda Ann Borg | ... | Rosemary Olcott |
| Sig Ruman | ... | Papa (at resort) |
| Lee Patrick | ... | Lil (on train) |
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107 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Betty Grable was pregnant during the filming of this movie.
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Featured in "Biography: Betty Grable: Behind the Pin-up" (1995)
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Silent Night, Holy Night
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This is by far the most disappointing of all Betty Grable musicals I have seen. Shot in Fox's sumptuous Technicolor, "Mother Wore Tights" is not a bad viewing but it could have been better. It opens with Grable and her husband living in quiet senility. Then her voice-over enters the soundtrack and starts recalling the past, detailing her life and marriage with a fellow vaudevillean (Dan Dailey). The film proceeds in a glacial, disconcerting pace, and the songs are mainly excruciating and dull, the dance numbers & vaudeville acts overwrought. The only thing that kept me watching "Mother Wore Tights" was the gorgeous Technicolor.